After failed attempts by the chador-clad woman to reel her in with her scowling face, the male officer intervenes to give it a shot, gesturing with a typical "come on now, let's go," but the red-streaked lady jolts back in a don't-touch-me kind of way.
Unless the Saudi supreme court intervenes, this obscene ritual will be repeated month after month until he has received 1,000 lashes for the "crime" of setting up a website to champion free speech.
The system intervenes once kids are off the rails.
The worst outcome would be for the government to postpone new anti-corruption legislation in the face of other priorities – and therefore potentially for several years if an election intervenes.
But there was nothing in tonight's debate to change the game: and as Brown himself put it, unless something dramatic intervenes, that game now looks like his defeat.
When the state intervenes to create jobs, it often botches it.
A federal board intervenes; if it cannot produce a deal, the White House can appoint an emergency board to mediate, while the workers are forced to stay on the job for 60 days.
"A strong government does not mean a government that interferes and intervenes in all affairs," he said in a speech to clergy.
Whether that creates social upheaval will depend on how many companies go bust (probably many); whether new jobs are available; and whether the government intervenes with emergency subsidies (it has in the past).Workers will fret; but foreigners should too.
Unless Congress intervenes, tax rates will rise sharply on January 1st, as a series of temporary cuts adopted during the presidency of George Bush junior expire.
Loose-form is what we have now in the UK – when the central bank verbally intervenes, for example, to tell the markets that the timing of the first rise in rates they are anticipating is (in the Bank of England's own words) "not warranted".
